In between his bloviations directed toward the Leader of the Free World, Leader of the Republican Party Rush Limbaugh took a moment to take Governor Kathleen Sebelius to task.
Unfortunately for Rush, he paid such exact attention to the talking points as produced by the Kansas Republican Party he let him self do something I know has just got to tear him up inside: He lied.
From Media Matters:
On the March 2 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, whom President Obama has selected to be secretary of health and human services, "at one point was refusing to send out money that Kansas taxpayers had overpaid." Limbaugh added that Sebelius had been "withholding taxpayer refund checks" and that she had "sat on Kansas taxpayers' money and refused to send them their refunds." In fact, after Kansas halted payments in February on $12 million in tax returns due to budget shortfalls, Republicans in the state legislature reportedly refused to approve Sebelius' proposal to transfer money between state accounts in order to pay tax refunds, state employees, schools, and health-care providers until she approved hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts.On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh claimed that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius "at one point was refusing to send out money that Kansas taxpayers had overpaid." In fact, after Kansas halted payments in February on $12 million in tax returns due to budget shortfalls, Republicans in the state legislature refused to approve Sebelius' proposal to transfer money between state accounts in order to pay tax refunds, state employees, schools, and health-care providers until she approved hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts.
It's one of those really disappointing things about the media- so often the unscrupulous among us use our power to parrot falsehoods- something at which the Radical Right happens to excel. Thankfully, though, media watch dog groups like Media Matters are here to police the medium and take people to task for "errors" like this one uttered by Limbaugh.
*Tsk* You'd think the Republicans could find a leader who at least could get his facts straight...
http://kansasjackass.blogspot.com/2009/03/limbaugh-lies-about-sebelius.html
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